Just another SWAT raid burning a 12 yeal old girl in her sleep

A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home
Tuesday morning.

"She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side of her body and on her arms," said the girl's mother, Jackie Fasching. "She's got
severe pain. Every time I think about it, it brings tears to my eyes."

Professionalism.

However, the officer didn't realize that there was a delay on the grenade when he tried to detonate it. He dropped it to move onto a new device,
St. John said. The grenade fell to the floor and went off near the girl.

I dont recall the Three Stooges episode where they got jobs as paramilitary psychos.

She and her two daughters and her husband were home at the time of the raid. She said her husband, who suffers from congenital heart disease and
liver failure, told officers he would open the front door as the raid began and was opening it as they knocked it down.

They have an obligation to make it home safe you know. First priority even when embarking on wholly pointless and unnecessarily risky actions is that
they make it home safe. So brave. Im tearing up.

The decision to use a SWAT team was based on a detailed checklist the department uses when serving warrants.

Maybe if these psycho cop settlements were paid out of the cops salaries it wouldnt be so easy for them to drunkenly assault anybody they wanted to.
When the taxpayers pay the bill who cares how poorly run things are, right? We'll just send in some armed goons to make sure they pay up.
The article makes it sound like if there were known juveniles they would not have used SWAT. If you read the checklists the presence of children at
the scene is automatic SWAT deployment.

1. Are you getting enough sex at home? If no, use SWAT.
2. Were you bullied as a kid? If yes, use SWAT.
3. Do you feel really weak but want to look tough? If yes, use SWAT.
4. Are you a psycho and want to cause some chaos....

I bet they thought Justin Bieber was there showing off his naughty photo's on his cell phone...

I looked at the photo's from that link and seeing her room like that.
I don't know. I hate the thought of the girl getting hurt but--- maybe if they cleaned up around the place, the cops wouldn't have reason to suspect
something bad was going on in the house that required a SWAT teams attention

Maybe I missed something because I have yet to finish my double espresso and it is only 8 am but how come SWAT is becoming a common occurrence? Do
they just get some information through hearsay, deploy the big guns, and not bother with gathering intelligence first. (Maybe by asking people in the
community if there is ay suspicious activity going on in the house. Questioning the school the child attends, to see if they know if said child might
be in danger...) It seems like such a waste of time, as well as poor judgement, to just call up SWAT...

Originally posted by SassyCass
I bet they thought Justin Bieber was there showing off his naughty photo's on his cell phone...

I looked at the photo's from that link and seeing her room like that.
I don't know. I hate the thought of the girl getting hurt but--- maybe if they cleaned up around the place, the cops wouldn't have reason to suspect
something bad was going on in the house that required a SWAT teams attention

So a messy room is enough to require a swat team, because it is suspicious of drug crime?

That's some real rational thinking there.

Ok everybody...get your kids to clean up there rooms, because that is enough cause to get a drug swat team at your door.

Maybe we'll get to see a swat team come down on some of those people on the show Hoarders next.

Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
Maybe I missed something because I have yet to finish my double espresso and it is only 8 am but how come SWAT is becoming a common occurrence? Do
they just get some information through hearsay, deploy the big guns, and not bother with gathering intelligence first. (Maybe by asking people in the
community if there is ay suspicious activity going on in the house. Questioning the school the child attends, to see if they know if said child might
be in danger...) It seems like such a waste of time, as well as poor judgement, to just call up SWAT...

The two biggest reasons SWAT usage is on the rise are actually the same reason. It's also the reason for nearly all government waste and abuse.

They exist so they must constantly perpetuate their own existence.

By deploying SWAT teams for everything from non-violent warrant serving to collecting taxes they ensure their own existence is justified
bureaucratically and financially and they get themselves media recognition or "face time" to normalize their use in the eyes of the public.

This is why empowering people is dangerous. Fund them with tax dollars and it gets even more dangerous.

These abuses happen in every tax funded office from the clerks secretary to the librarian to the fire and police chief all the way up to the mayor.

It has always been this way.

Put hyped up hyper-violent psychos in the mix and this is what you get.

Brazil, I believe it was, not long ago dismantled their paramilitary SWAT type force because of these very abuses on the purse and the people. I'll
try to find the article about it.

Thanks, I am interested in reading the article on Brazil, so I hope you can pass along the information. SWAT isn't a common occurrence in Canada nor
are federal raids (although I assume they DO happen) so it kind of baffles me. Its a shame that this happens all too often and only to justify their
existence. And now, a song...

'When there's something wrong, in the neighborhood, who you gonna call THE SWAT TEAM...
When there's something strange, and it don't look good, who you gonna call THE SWAT TEAM..."

Evo Morales has ordered the dissolution of the specially trained police force, the Unit for the Tactical Resolution of Crisis (UTARC). This
follows allegations of mistreatment of journalists from the TV channel ‘Unitel’ and irregularities during the arrest of landowner Nelson
Vaca.

Now, if a place like Bolivia can find a way to dissolve their goon squad for something as relatively trivial as roughing up the media I'm sure some
towns in the US can take a second look at their local PD SWAT teams who cant get addresses right and drop grenades.

Other dissolved goon squads:

Fiji’s military says it disbanded the Police Tactical Response Unit set up by the former commissioner because it had compromised its role.

In a statement, the acting police commissioner, Lt Col Jimi Koroi, says the unit had come under heavy suspicion from the army and its members showed
overt signs of indiscipline.

1. Are you getting enough sex at home? If no, use SWAT.
2. Were you bullied as a kid? If yes, use SWAT.
3. Do you feel really weak but want to look tough? If yes, use SWAT.
4. Are you a psycho and want to cause some chaos....

I used to hold out hope that there would be that one that made them all stop and take stock but not anymore.

When they can barge into a mayors house, shoot his dogs and drag them all out into the street and face virtually no penalty save some token apologies
we're past the point of hoping for change.
Calvo's Story

No arrests were made during the raid and no charges have been filed, although a police spokesman said afterward that some evidence was recovered
during the search. St. John declined to release specifics of the drug case, citing the active investigation, but did say that "activity was
significant enough where our drug unit requested a search warrant."

"Some evidence" of what? No arrests.

"If we're wrong or made a mistake, then we're going to take care of it," he said. "But if it determines we're not, then we'll go with that.
When we do this, we want to ensure the safety of not only the officers, but the residents inside."

Thanks again for ensuring our safety!

I like this bit of double speak:

"The information that we had did not have any juveniles in the house and did not have any juveniles in the room," he said. "We generally do not
introduce these disorienting devices when they're present."

followed by:

"Every bit of information and intelligence that we have comes together and we determine what kind of risk is there," St. John said. "The
warrant was based on some hard evidence and everything we knew at the time."

I am more in favor of just building fortress my house, with metal cageing inside the walls and steel shutters on the inside of the windows that can be
deployed for protection, this is just idiotic.

At what point does the public just take this into their own hands and start shooting police on site, so as to protect their communities from them?

I always taught my children to police are the good guys, and they should not fear them as they are "here to help". More and more I see the naivety
of this line of thinking, maybe I should be teaching them the present truth, not the truth from when I was a kid.

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